Difficulty connecting to PostgreSQL#localhost using node-postgress (Error:28000) - postgresql

Question

I'm currently running openSuse on an rPi3B+ (aarch64) and have hit a wall running a NodeJS connection script.
I went through the standard install of PostgreSQL (v10 is what is offered on this version of openSuse) then created a new role with
CREATE ROLE new_role LOGIN PASSWORD 'passwd';
and then a db with
CREATE DATABASE new_db OWNER new_role;
Both the \l & \du return the expected outputs show that both the role and db have been created successfully with the correct owner.
So I then quickly created a node project directory and copied the test script from the docs: https://node-postgres.com/features/connecting
const { Pool, Client } = require('pg')
const connectionString = 'postgresql://new_role:passwd#localhost:5432/new_db'
const pool = new Pool({
connectionString: connectionString,
})
pool.query('SELECT NOW()', (err, res) => {
console.log(err, res)
pool.end()
})
const client = new Client({
connectionString: connectionString,
})
client.connect()
client.query('SELECT NOW()', (err, res) => {
console.log(err, res)
client.end()
})
This returns a few broken promise errors that I haven't caught(.cath()) correctly yet, and an error code of 28000 that looks like this:
{ error: Ident authentication failed for user "new_role"
at Connection.parseE (/home/eru/postgresDB/node_modules/pg/lib/connection.js:554:11)
at Connection.parseMessage (/home/eru/postgresDB/node_modules/pg/lib/connection.js:379:19)
at Socket.<anonymous> (/home/eru/postgresDB/node_modules/pg/lib/connection.js:119:22)
at Socket.emit (events.js:182:13)
at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:283:12)
at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:264:11)
at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:219:10)
at TCP.onStreamRead [as onread] (internal/stream_base_commons.js:94:17)
name: 'error',
length: 99,
severity: 'FATAL',
code: '28000',
detail: undefined,
hint: undefined,
position: undefined,
internalPosition: undefined,
internalQuery: undefined,
where: undefined,
schema: undefined,
table: undefined,
column: undefined,
dataType: undefined,
constraint: undefined,
file: 'auth.c',
line: '328',
routine: 'auth_failed' } undefined
So I'm pretty sure the attempt made it to the intended port otherwise I wouldn't have received the detailed error in terminal. The error code = invalid_authorization_specification
Is the there something I need to do on the server ,psql interface, that will fulfill the authorization specification?
When I've looked into that specific one I can't seem to find useful search results relevant to my situation.
Fairly new to postgres here so I'm sure this is a pretty noob mistake that I'm missing but any help or input is very appreciated!

Answer 1

Found an answer after a little more digging here: error: Ident authentication failed for user
Ended up editing my pg_hba.conf from the ident method to md5
This is rather crude because I don't really understand what I changed aside from telling postgreSQL to check the md5 encrypted password instead of checking if my username matched the roles created on the server.
If anyone has a proper explanation for what's changed and why I'm all ears.